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Tuesday, March 31, 2015

I can hardly believe it, but it's already the last day of March again...time flies by so quickly...

I have another art journalpage to share

I used an older digi by the Emerald fairie garden called Pip for my page but I decided to use a totally different colourscheme this month. I normally love to use purples, blues and pinks, but this time I used greens, browns and oranges, And I really love it, allthough it can be a bit tricky because orange and green can blend to a mucky brown if you are not careful.

This is the complete page.The background is made with Dylusions ink and stamps. The raindrops are a stamp by Ryn Design.

This is a close up of the image. For colouring I used the following copic markers:

Face : E000, 00, 11, 21, R20, 13

hair: E09, YR07, 09, 14, 16, 61

sweater and wings: YR07, 09, 14, 16, 61

leaf and shoes: YG03, 17, 23, 61, 67, G94

falling raindrops: BG0000, B39

top and trousers: YG03, 17, 23, 61, 67, E71, 74, 77, 79

to get some depth into the raindrops I used a sharpie white and a white stabilo watercolourpencil

Sunday, March 29, 2015

Hi copic friends,
I remember when I first started coloring, I was so afraid to use the darker colors . I bought them...lol...but I rarely used them. So afraid to ruin my image.

So I thought I would show you what a difference it makes to get some contrast in the image to create depth. If you are a beginner you can easily find the darker matching color by looking at the copic color wheel and choosing a higher spesific value in the same color family and color group (the last number on the marker). For example if you use R81 you can add R83- R85- R89.

On this image by Saturated Canary I used two or three markers in each blending group. Only the lighter ones.

Some people prefer the lighter colors, and thats okay if you do. But what happends if you add the darker colors?

First I added E49 to the hair to define the deepest shadows. And more E44 to blend. Finally I went over with E40 to smothen it up.

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Next the face. I had colored using E000 and E21 and E93 for the cheeks and lips.

Here I added E13- E11and R20 for the cheeks and lips. The face looks a lot less flat than before.

(And by the way a tip is to color the face before the hair, it is so easy to drag some of the darker browns into the face and ruin your image - learning the hard way...lol)

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Originally I used R81 and V000 for the pinks.

I added E89-85-83 ont the flowers, t-shirt and skirt.

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I used E41 and 43 for the apron and parts of the skirt. Here I added E47 and 44, and some more E43, E42 and E41 for a good blend.

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On the basket I originally used E33-E31 and E30

I added E37 and E35, and used the other three again to blend.

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For the gloves and legs I used C1 and C00.

I added C7- C5 and C3 for deeper shadows and used C1 and C00 again.

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On the leaves I originally used G43 and G40.

I added G99 and G46 and G43 and G40 again.

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Here are the two images. Look how different they are.

And here is my finished card:

Papers are Pion Design. Flowers are by WOC and Kort og Godt. Butterfly by Magnolia.

Saturday, March 28, 2015

I
deeply and truly believe that the world has become so accessible
lately, that using one of the modern communicative technologies you can
travel everywhere you want without even leaving your home. Diving into
the world of books and surfing the Web can give you a huge amount of
information.

With
today's card I wanted to pay the earned attention to the books which
give us the opportunity to visit every place on earth. I used Mo's Janny Texting and some new cutting dies and elements, too.

8th of March is traditional woman's day in Russia. I decided to celebrate it with my daughters in very special way...SPA party!!! What can be better?I prepared a lot of fun stuff (including towel robes that I sewed by myself; present bags with sea salt, creams, etc) - more details at my blog over here.

One of the decoration that I made were frames with invitations. I used new stamps from Mo Manning (Girl time and Pampered).

Tuesday, March 24, 2015

It's Faye here, with the cutest little bear, he's called Waiting For You, from Funky Kits. Doesn't he just tug at your heart strings?!

I chose this image as I enjoy colouring fur, (remember, no smooth colouring here and lots of layers of colour) but I also like playing around with adding texture to wood. On this occasion, I have used W3 and W5 to the E's I used, to add shadow and some depth to the wood. You could also add some touches of green, if you wanted to make the wood look old and a bit grubby.

I always have a mini battle when I try to colour a balloon... maybe I've got it right at last!